Not enough book talk around here!
I've been trying to read more classics lately.
Candide by Voltaire, a witty satire on optimism, good vs. evil and religion among other things. Had me laughing out loud quite a few times.
Read a couple of Poe's stories - The Fall of the House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum Loved the latter, didn't care ofr the former. Poe has been very hit and miss for me.
Currently reading This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences in a concentration camp during WWII. Horrific is about the only way I can sum it up.
Also been slogging my way through Dracula for months. The early chapters in Transylvania were exciting, but now that Dracula himself has disappeared from much of the story, things have slowed down. Some of the characters' verbosity hasn't helped things either (looking at you van Helsing)
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